PLATFORM : Balanced Forestry JERRY PARTAIN, JERRY PARTAIN, a consultant on lumbering and forestry, was director of the California Department of Forestry from 1983-89. His memo to a Louisiana Pacific official, objecting to the company's rate of tree-cutting, recently made news, but Partain says that the memo does not mean he's an ally of the environmental groups against the lumber companies. He told The Times: and